Zitat:Presidential, city and rural council elections start in Iran
Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:41AM GMT

Polls have officially opened in Iran for presidential, and city and rural council elections with nearly 50.5 million people eligible to vote.

The Iranians began casting their ballots at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) on Friday with the polls scheduled to remain open for ten hours. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei cast his ballot minutes into the polls.

More than 1.6 million of those eligible to vote are first-time voters.
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Zitat:15. Juni 2013 08:00
Wahlen in Iran
Reformer Rohani überraschend weit in Führung

Beobachter rechneten mit einer Stichwahl, doch die iranische Präsidentschaftswahl könnte schon im ersten Durchgang entschieden werden. Der als moderat geltende Hassan Rohani liegt überraschend uneinholbar in Führung. Die benötigte absolute Mehrheit ist dem Kleriker aber noch nicht sicher.
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Zitat:Präsidentenwahl im Iran

Rohani lässt die Konkurrenz hinter sich

Bei der Präsidentenwahl im Iran deutet alles auf einen überraschend klaren Sieg des Kandidaten des Reformlagers hin. Ob der 64-jährige Rohani auf Anhieb auch die absolute Mehrheit erreicht hat, steht noch nicht fest. Die Auszählung der Stimmen dauert an.
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Stand: 15.06.2013 14:20 Uhr

Zitat:15. Juni 2013 14:35
Wahlen in Iran
Reformer Rohani weiter mit knapper absoluter Mehrheit

Beobachter rechneten mit einer Stichwahl, doch die iranische Präsidentschaftswahl könnte schon im ersten Durchgang entschieden werden. Der als moderat geltende Hassan Rohani liegt in Führung. Die benötigte absolute Mehrheit ist dem Kleriker aber auch nach Auszählung von mehr als der Hälfte der Stimmen noch nicht sicher.
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Zitat:15. Juni 2013 18:03
Iran
Moderater Kleriker Hassan Rohani gewinnt Präsidentschaftswahl

Hassan Rohani hat bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen in Iran mehr als 50 Prozent der Stimmen erobert, wie das Innenministerium mitteilte. Damit wird ein gemäßigter Politiker Nachfolger von Mahmud Ahmadinedschad, der offen für Reformen sein könnte.

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Zitat:Iran reformists may urge Aref to quit presidential race
Fri May 31, 2013 12:59PM GMT

Reformist groups and factions have joined forces to pick just one frontrunner for the upcoming presidential race in Iran.
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The idea is to ask presidential candidate Mohammad Reza Aref to step aside in favor of Hassan Rohani, in a bid to avoid vote splitting.
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Rohani ist ein sympathischer Zeitgenosse, aber das wird nicht reichen.

Zitat:High voter turnout improves Iran international standing: FM spokesman
Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:14PM GMT

Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi says the massive voter turnout in the June 14 election will improve Iran’s regional and international standing.

On Sunday, Araqchi congratulated president-elect Hassan Rohani on his landmark victory in the June 14 election, which was marked by high voter turnout. Rohani won 50.7 percent of a total of 36,704,156 ballots counted.
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Zitat:Iranian rial climbs 10 percent as hopes grow over economy

TEHRAN, Jun. 22 (MNA) – The Iranian currency, the rial, rose further on Thursday on hopes the country's economy could improve under its next president, a relative moderate elected last week.
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The rial now hovers at around a third of the value it was at the end of 2011, just before the United States and the European Union levied unfair sanctions on Iran's central bank, almost cutting off the Islamic Republic from the global banking system.

Zitat:Iran inaugurates gasoline, jet fuel production units

TEHRAN, Jun. 26 (MNA) – Two new units came on stream at the Lavan Oil Refinery in southern Iran that will boost the country’s gasoline production capacity by 2.8 million liters per day and its jet fuel production capacity by one million liters per day.
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Zitat:Closer Iran-Turkey ties in interest of region, global peace: Rouhani

Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rouhani says the enhancement of the relations between the Islamic Republic and Turkey will benefit the region as well as global peace.

Responding to an earlier congratulatory message from Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul, Rouhani said on Monday that, “The Iranian and Turkish nations have unique historical and cultural commonalities and we hope that these commonalities will lead to stability and security in this important and sensitive region of the world at this juncture.”

He added that the two nations can boost mutual ties in a whole range of areas, which will benefit the region and global peace.
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Zitat:Major steel mill launched in southern Iran
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built by the Iranian private sector with an investment of 6,100 billion rials (nearly USD 5.5 billion). [Beim Straßenpreis für US Dollar liegt der $-Preis des Stahlwerks bei einem Vielfachen.]
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created jobs for 800 people and is projected to produce four million tons of sponge iron, six million tons of iron ore pellets, 1.7 million tons of steel billets, and 2.75 million tons of steel slabs on an annual basis.
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Zitat:Iran’s Golestan Palace granted World Heritage status
Sun Jun 23, 2013 5:48PM GMT

Iran’s prestigious Golestan Palace has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the UN cultural body says.
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The palace was built in Tehran in the 16th century when the Safavid Dynasty was ruling Iran.

The site received its most characteristic features following extensions in the 19th century, when the ruling Qajar family selected the palace as the royal residence and seat of power. Golestan Palace currently consists of eight key palace structures mainly used as museums.

“The Golestan Palace is considered of Outstanding Universal Value because it is presented as the most complete and only remaining example of a royal palace which is an architectural masterpiece of the Qajar era,” the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) said in a statement.
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Zitat:Iran’s defense minister meets with President-elect Rohani
Tue Jul 9, 2013 10:16AM GMT

Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi has met with President-elect Hassan Rohani to submit a report on his ministry’s performance and achievements in various fields.
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Vahidi, who was accompanied during the talks with Defense Ministry deputies, said that in the meeting he submitted a report on the activities, infrastructure, and production capabilities of the ministry and Iran’s defense industry in various sectors.

The defense minister added that he further offered the details of the programs that are already underway in the defense industry to President-elect Rohani.

Noting that Rohani has a good experience in and knowledge of the defense sector, Vahidi said he and his staff tried to present to him a clear picture of the Defense Ministry’s operations.
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Zitat:Bans affecting medicine in Iran very cruel: Ayatollah Rafsanjani
Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:47AM GMT

Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has described as “very cruel” the US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic that have resulted in the shortage of medicine and health risks to patients in the country.

“The situation of patients and their families is worrisome and upsetting, [especially] when we hear that, in addition to the miseries of the illness, they have difficulty finding medication as well,” said Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani in a Wednesday meeting with members of the Board of Directors of the Iranian Association of Pharmacists.

The top Iranian official said, “Under false pretexts and sometimes by relying on the words and deeds of extremists, the [so-called] advocates of human rights cause suffering to the [Iranian] people, in particular the patients, which does not conform to any human principles.”
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Zitat:Was hier sicherlich nicht gesendet wird:

Schneemann schrieb:Da ist man mal zwei Monate unterwegs und leider nicht online, und schon werden wieder die schönsten Propaganda-Blüten in die Welt gesetzt. Nur anbei: Sowohl die Tagesschau, als auch z. B. die FAZ u. a. haben dieses Thema schon oft angesprochen. Falls du dich erinnerst: Genau das Problem, dass die Sanktionen [auch] die medizinische Versorgung treffen, wurde schon hier im Forum vor einigen Monaten angesprochen - von mir übrigens. Seltsam, dass du dies erst jetzt ansprichst... :roll:

Zitat:Iran sells $2.47b of shares of state-run companies in 3 months
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The shares were owned by 18 state-run companies, the Privatization Organization of Iran said in a press release, IRNA reported.

The government has envisioned a large privatization program in the Fifth Five-Year Development Plan (2010-2015), aiming to privatize about 20 percent of state-owned firms each year.
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